Note: There is a flash going on that contains much information. I'll copy it out here.
Rainforests provide many natural products: coffee, cocoa and many medicines, including those used in the treatment of cancer.
More than 2,000 tropical forest plants have been identified by scientists as having anti-cancer properties.
Originally, 6 million square miles of tropical rainforest existed worldwide. As a result of deforestation, only 2.6 million remain.
Though covering less than 2% of the Earth's surface, the world's rainforests are home to 50% of the Earth?s plants and animals.
Before 1500 A.D., there were about 6 million indigenous people in the Brazilian Amazon. By the 1900s, there were less than 250,000.
Next Website: (The whole website is like the answer) http://www.tiptheplanet.com/index.php?title=Preserve_the_rainforest
Next Website: http://www.nature.org/rainforests/explore/facts.html
This website has many facts about rainforests.
Hanming
This website will tell us more about the severity of this problem, and what steps we must take to stop deforestation of rainforests. www.mbgnet.net/sets/rforest/youdo.htm
This website will tell you more about deforestation, and the importance of rain forests to us humans www.worldlandtrust.org/supporting/save-rainforest.htm
Caius
http://www.nature.org/rainforests/
Note: There is a flash going on that contains much information. I'll copy it out here.
Rainforests provide many natural products: coffee, cocoa and many medicines, including those used in the treatment of cancer.
More than 2,000 tropical forest plants have been identified by scientists as having anti-cancer properties.
Originally, 6 million square miles of tropical rainforest existed worldwide. As a result of deforestation, only 2.6 million remain.
Though covering less than 2% of the Earth's surface, the world's rainforests are home to 50% of the Earth?s plants and animals.
Before 1500 A.D., there were about 6 million indigenous people in the Brazilian Amazon. By the 1900s, there were less than 250,000.
Next Website: (The whole website is like the answer)
http://www.tiptheplanet.com/index.php?title=Preserve_the_rainforest
Next Website:
http://www.nature.org/rainforests/explore/facts.html
This website has many facts about rainforests.
Hanming
http://www.wildasia.org/main.cfm/support/Future_of_Asian_Rainforests_1 (there are lots of points but some are unrelated. this is part 1, the links to part 2&3 is at the bottom of the page)
http://kids.mongabay.com/ (many points on this website)
darren cheng
http://kids.mongabay.com/elementary/401.html
this will tell you about the importance of rainforests
http://www.rainforestconcern.org/rainforest_facts/why_the_importance/
this will tell you about the importance of rainforests, in a more detailed manner
colman
This website will tell us more about the severity of this problem, and what steps we must take to stop deforestation of rainforests.
www.mbgnet.net/sets/rforest/youdo.htm
This website will tell you more about deforestation, and the importance of rain forests to us humans
www.worldlandtrust.org/supporting/save-rainforest.htm
Caius